Sunday, February 10, 2013

the precarious business of culturing words

Poetry is dishonesty
                        but i had to be half asleep
i am a voice
a trembling
         words are dropped
        laid on the surface
        of endless water
      so shallow, but the water is
           never still

a trembling, cut
    pieced   hastily weaved
                                        desperately (is it really all we have?)
    laid out on, i dropped it
                on
          the unwritten body, and i
wait, looking
                        away, for
the foreign signs to grow
     on to strangers

          how dare i desire honesty
                 when i had to be half asleep
                         but my trembling was

                                    alone.

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